HIST1007 Chapter Notes -Thomas Wilson Dorr, Northwest Territory, William Gilmore Simms
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1820s/30s trade unions developed in cities: began to band together because economies of cites were interconnected, made sense to form union, labor leaders struggled w/ hostile laws and courts, common law made worker combination as illegal conspiracy. Panic of 1837 also weakened movement: fighting for control, workers at all levels in industrial economy tried to improve position by making 10-hour workday or restricting child labor. Patterns of industrial society: the rich and the poor, commercial +industrial growth raised average income of americans, but wealth distributed unequally, for slaves, indians, landless farmers, many unskilled workers little change. More people read, new newspapers, magazines, books for affluent: also theaters, minstrel shows, public sporting events increasingly popular, in particular the circus amazed people (pt barnum), lectures. Ny: frederic church, thomas cole, thomas doughty, and asher durand: hoped to express the wild nature of america that europe did not have, literature and the quest for liberation.